Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 108
This was so changed that if a chief should attempt it “he would instantly cease to be a chief on this archipelago.”
Who acts: chief, man · What happens: change, attempt, cease, be · To what, where: This, same, chief, archipelago · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 attempt | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 attempt | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attempt | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 attempt | aux |
| 10 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 changed | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 attempt | obj |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cease | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cease | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cease | aux |
| 15 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 cease | advmod |
| 16 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 attempt | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 chief | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 chief | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chief | det |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cease | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 archipelago | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 archipelago | det |
| 23 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chief | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | This | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | attempt | should | a chief | same | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cease in a quote | would | man | instantly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | a chief | this archipelago | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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